Avacado mania

[Healing1]

HI Everyone,
Lately I have been desiring avacado to the point that one day I ate 7! I am still craving them and have been eating 2-4 per day. In salad, alone with sea salt and in "burritoes". I have been raw a few months, and am wondering if this is o.k. ? I do still have my green drink every day, other greens and watermelon or fruit of other kinds.
I LOVE AVACADO!!!
Terri
p.s. I am still slowly loosing weight anyways. I began around 112lbs and am now 92lbs, at 5' tall.

[sport]

Too much of anything can not be good if only for the reason that it is depriving you of other foodstufffs that would bring more variety and therefore a more varied array of vits and minerals. You should try to replace some of thoes avos with something else.

[flutterfly]

Sport is right. I have learned that the hard way with spinach. For a day or two it is OK to go with the cravings like that but then you have to taper off :)

[levamssg]

Healing 1 ... Listen to your body and what it wants. As long as you are eating other foods as well and getting a good variety, then eat those avocados!!

I tend to food binge as well. Right now, I eat at least 2-4 avocados a day ... one in a green and vege salad, one or two in 'Todd's' Waldorf salad, and usually one just to sit and eat the thing. And there was a time when I didn't even LIKE or want avocados ...

Not very long ago, it was bananas. I ate about 6 per day minimum. Now I'm not wanting them, and only have about 6 per week, if that. Perhaps it is the change of season .. I don't know. But, I just go with whatever it is I'm wanting, mix it up with lots of other things.

re: weight. I'm 5'5", weigh 105. I went from 135# to my present 105# rather quickly when I went 100% raw. I've maintained the 105# weight now for the last 8 months. Doesn't seem to matter how much, how little, or what I eat.

[sweetgoddess]

I think you should trust your body and what it is guiding you to eat. It sounds like you eat a very balanced diet.
I remember reading something Victoria Boutenko wrote about her children in 12 Steps to Raw that reminds me of this.

"When my family had been on raw for a few months, my children began craving different fruits. Sergei asked for mangos and blueberries and Valya asked for olives and figs. The kids cravings were so strong, I had to hustle to keep up with them. I bought Sergei a whole case of mangos thinking they would last him a week. He sat down and ate them all in one day, skin and all. He then wished their were more mangos so I bought him another case. The same thing happened with blueberries.

Valya liked figs. She asked for fresh figs, dry figs, black figs. She could never have enough figs. The same with olives.
Our next stop was a visit to Dr.Bernard Jensen, a world famous clinical nutritionist.We asked what Sergei needed to eat for diabetes. He looked in his books and said the best thing for diabetes was mangoes and blueberries.
Wow. Then we asked what Valya needed to eat to help her asthma. He said figs and olives. I told him that was exactly what the children had been eating.

Our bodies crave certain foods because of need. Listen to your body and your intuition for health and happiness. You're body knows best. Please believe in your own intuition and dont make the mistake of thinking that someone else knows better about your body than you do. Your body is so beautiful and so wise. Our bodies never make mistakes. We all know what we need to do if we listen to our bodies. "

Hope that helps ease you're mind Healing. :)

Blessings~

[angelandarose]

I do this too, I love avocado's and I go through phases of eating more than 1 or 2 a day. And you know what, the next morning after an avo binge I have lost weight. Explain that when they are so high in fat and calories??? HA! Don't ya just love it.
Go with your instinct, eat them when you crave them and ENJOY! I know I do. ;-)

Love,
Angie

[flutterfly]

When I followed my body and ate all the spinach it wanted I was bound up tighter than a safe with an axtra lock. I would just hate to hear of anyone else that had to go through that kind of pain lol

[sport]

sweetgoddess. I cant help but compere you post with that of the gent on another tread (I think he was Mike) who was telling us that we needed to take so much of each thing each day and I am torn between both ideas. My self indulgent side wants to row in with you but my carefull side wants to investigate his proposal.

[sweetgoddess]

I understand sport. There is so much conflicting information in this world and that is why you have to create your own information-suited just for you. Nobody on earth has all the answers, for if they did-they wouldnt have any use for earth!

If we dont listen to our own intuition and our own inner guidance and judgement, what then will we do? Swing from one side to another as we stumble across each new idea hoping it to be the truth? The only truth for me, is the truth of my own experiences and beliefs.
If we dont learn to listen to ourselves we will be manipulated.

Do you see any other living being running around asking others what they should eat--or scurrying all over the planet to gather this hard to find plant, that rare root, this almost impossible to get nutrient? I personally doubt that our Creator made sustaining our bodies a wild planetary goose chase, but thats just my belief. :D

Coming from my point of view, I think it is ludicrous that the Divine plan or whatever you would like to consider it intended that everyday we have to count and measure each nutrient we are ingesting or something bad will happen. That we have to order all these expensive superfoods and supplements, roots and powders on and on and on.

By the time we stress out over what may happen, what we may be missing, what am I doing wrong etc-we just wiped out half the benefits of what we did gift our bodies with. Keep in mind, even with what we know-we know so very little of how this body, our vessel-works. Fortunately for us--it has its own intelligence, independent of our minds.

What a relief!

[cattzeye]

Sweetgoddess,

I totally agree with what you said in your post! Myself, I don't ever worry about getting certain nutrients, am I deficient in anything, am I getting too much of something. I just eat a very wide variety of food, and within this variety, I feel secure that my body is acquiring all the nutrients it needs. I agree that we don't have to search wildly all over the planet for obscure food items and supplements, to be sure we are getting proper nutrition. Everything we need, I believe, is contained in raw plant foods.

I don't see anything "wrong" with eating a lot of a certain food, as long as it isn't long-term. I think this could have an adverse effect on our body, because as someone else pointed out, this could result in eating that particular food, and not eating a variety of others. But for short-term, I think it is fine, and could be the body "asking" for a certain nutrient at that time. Having said that, however, I feel that it is also important to look at the reasons why we may be craving a food, above all others. What need could this food be serving for me, other than a bodily need? Sometimes it could be an emotional need we are trying to fill. Not that we have to psychoanalyse ourselves at every turn, but I think it can be helpful in our personal growth to understand why we do the things we do. Just my experience.

Anyway, I just joined this group several days ago. I introduced myself on the "meet and greet" forum, and have just today started posting here. I look forward to becoming a part of this community. Thank you all for being here, and for sharing of yourselves the way you do. It is immensely helpful to me.

Blessings,

Christine

[Rawkinlocs]

I agree with Sweetgoddess as well and was going to mention the Boutenko kids and the cravings Sergei had and his mom bought and bought and he ate and ate and then she bought a case and he ate a few from the case and then was done! LOL!

But at the same time, I can understand and appreciate what Flutterfly and others said regarding using caution with overdoing it.

I think that perhaps the strong craving for avocado is your body maybe needing some omega fatty acids (?). Maybe incorporate some green smoothies (or other ways of getting greens) or even some flax. But if you are not feeling or experiencing any ill effects at this point, then listen to what your body is saying...but just make sure you're getting some other stuff in as well as all those avoes!

[Pink_Berry]

i ate one avocado daily for over an entire year... every night... nightly for dinner... i just LOVED them.. and i couldnt go one day without having one! i would have had more if i wanted, but thru out the day.. i just didnt know where to fit them in!

now.. im kicking myself for eating avos daily ( even tho i had strong cravings to eat them and still do )... because now basically my body is rejecting them!! i get terrible terrible gas from them...indigestion with bubbly feelings in my tummy...sometimes feel sorta sick and " off "... even tho im STILL craving them... my body is basically saying NOO... stop!!
i hope in time... i'll be able to eat them every now and again.... with no ill effects... but it doesnt look that way so far! lol

and i never started eating different things, or " combining " them wrongly in my diet! ive always food combined properly... ect ect!

so... sometimes... even if your body is CRAVING something... its your taste buds fooling you ;)!

short term is cool... but long term... i'd say... resist those cravings every now and then and try to eat something else!

[angelandarose]

Think of this idea,...
what did people do before stores and markets etc.... I mean WAY before all that stuff? They lived seasonally. They indulged in what was available seasonally. The took in vitamins and minerals daily, weekly, monthy, yearly.... not just 'every day'. I think that idea of you have to have all your vitamins and minerals EVERY DAY is just someone trying to sell their product. ;)



Love
Angie

[sport]

I want to relate my story with avacodas. I went on a 48 hour sponsered fast to raise money for charity many years ago and at the end of the day I was craving an avacado. I could not understand this as it was something that I had only eaten a few times up until then and would not have claimed to have even liked them. I later read about the high number of calories and level of neutrients they had and understood that my body was seeking concentrated food. I think that as you have dropped to 95 lbs maybe this is happening with you. Just a thought

[Healing1]

Hello everyone and thank you for all your diverse observations, personal experiences and advice. You are all great!

That said, my bowels are perfectly fine if not better, I eat really great green smoothies victoria shows on her site this month or wheatgrass juice each day. I eat other stuff too. I feel that tonight I have filled my quota of advacadoes. I had some for supper and I feel satisfied, finially.

Thanks for the reminder of listening to my own body, and the buchenko story. I had forgotton that story. Who knows what my body was using all those fatty acids for, but it used it for something.
It is also good to remember the benefits of variety.
On other posts I have spoken of how my healing seems to be slow in the painful joints and muscles. Maybe this is part of that healing. I have been feeling pretty good these last few days.
Thanks again all of you.

[Gosia]

I think that you might be craving so many avocadoes, because they give you the calories that you need. Is it possible that you have not been eating enough? When I was raw a few months, I ate lots of nuts. I suppose part of it was me being used to eat certain (condensed) way. This pattern later changed. So, my guess is that your pattern will change too. I would not worry about that at this stage. Enjoy your foods!

Gosia.

[Doe]

A couple of years ago I went through an avocado thing and don't believe it had anything to do with the fat; the reason I say this is because at the time I only ate green things. For breakfast honeydew, lunch was salad with romaine, spinach, parsley, green pepper, asparagus, snow peas, cucumbers, and for dinner, avocado. This went on for months. What was that? My body obviously needed something that is only in green foods.

Here lately it's been watermelon, that's all I want. Got to where I was buying one everyday. Yes, hubby did get some for breakfast but the rest was mine. All our melons are rotting before they mature due to the daily rains. Well hubby found a source of free watermelon for me. All he had to do was go get them. He brought home 40. Even at one a day I don't think they will stay good 40 days. Anyone know about how long they will last? I'd rather give the excess melons away while they are still good.

Teri

[tracyinfo]

Doe, keep them in the refrigerator! They last so much longer, that way.

My new cocktail is watermelon, scooped into a blender (including seeds), throw in some lime juice and turn the blender on. I drink it just as is, but my children and friends have suggested adding sparkling water. I love it.

Blessings.

[Doe]

Tracy, I loooove blended watermelon. Thanks about the fridge idea. Don't think I could get more than maybe 3 or 4 in it. I have a row of them lining the wall on the floor in the kitchen. The rest are in the corner of the carport with concrete walls on two sides. That was the coolest place I could think of. Well maybe I could line the wall on the floor in the bedroom. It would be cooler than the carport. Oh, for a cellar. No such thing here, dig down 6 feet and hit water. Less in the rainy season.

Teri

[RawTruth]

I understand sport. There is so much conflicting information in this world and that is why you have to create your own information-suited just for you. Nobody on earth has all the answers, for if they did-they wouldnt have any use for earth!

If we dont listen to our own intuition and our own inner guidance and judgement, what then will we do? Swing from one side to another as we stumble across each new idea hoping it to be the truth? The only truth for me, is the truth of my own experiences and beliefs.
If we dont learn to listen to ourselves we will be manipulated.

Do you see any other living being running around asking others what they should eat--or scurrying all over the planet to gather this hard to find plant, that rare root, this almost impossible to get nutrient? I personally doubt that our Creator made sustaining our bodies a wild planetary goose chase, but thats just my belief. :D

Coming from my point of view, I think it is ludicrous that the Divine plan or whatever you would like to consider it intended that everyday we have to count and measure each nutrient we are ingesting or something bad will happen. That we have to order all these expensive superfoods and supplements, roots and powders on and on and on.

By the time we stress out over what may happen, what we may be missing, what am I doing wrong etc-we just wiped out half the benefits of what we did gift our bodies with. Keep in mind, even with what we know-we know so very little of how this body, our vessel-works. Fortunately for us--it has its own intelligence, independent of our minds.

What a relief!
I realize that Healing1 no longer has this question, but I just had to step in here to say that what SweetGoddess wrote here is just phenomenal. So wise and so logical. It bears cut & pasting to print and hand out to newer raw folk. Thanks, Carmel.

[Healing1]

Thanks again,
I am now over 100 days 100% raw. I feel I am still detoxing and learning so much. All of you have been a great help!
Today, I do not feel like eating at all. I am going to listen to my body very closely, it may be the avo thing needs to be followed by a rest from eating. You are all so great with your advice and reminders, and since you all have various things to share I get great benefit from it all.

Maybe the most important advice (if any is more important) for me right now is to pay closer attention to my inner voice and my bodies messages.

Blessings,
Terri
p.s. Watermelon does sound really good!

[karenisraw]

I just pay attention to what my body says. The funniest thing is that my favorite fruit is watermelon and I haven't even thought about them in months. But the other day I craved grapes and grape juice. I don't even like grapes that much typically. I bought a couple of mangoes the other day and I did not even really want them. And I skipped over them when I went to the store the other day.

I loooove avocados. This morning I did not really want them, the tonight I ate one that wasn't completely ripe because the craving was so strong.

There is a reason I haven't thought of watermelons in months. I didn't need them.